Most people experience some amount of anxiety when coming home for the holidays, whether it’s because you’re bringing home a significant other to meet the folks for the first time or you may not be on the best terms with a family member. Most people typically don’t think “dietary issues” would make a family gathering … [Read more…]
The holidays are here, and it’s time for Peter to dust off his Swedish cookbook and make pepparkakor, a traditional Swedish ginger cookie. Peter has fond memories of his mom making home-made pepparkakor as a child, and now he’s instilling those memories in our boys. Every year he collects all of the ingredients together, with … [Read more…]
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Around the first of the year, people kept asking me if I made any New Years resolutions. My answer was always the same: “Anything that is that important to me, I will start right away.” I remember as a kid, the first time I heard someone say, “Mother’s day is everyday.” I was in … [Read more…]
Without looking it up on-line, tell me right now as you are reading this: What phase is the moon in? The majority of people in the world today could not answer that. There was a time when the moon held as much of our attention as television and computers do today. There was a time … [Read more…]